Exam

The 2016 film, Birth of a Nation dramatized the 1831 slave rebellion led by _______.

Nat Turner

For the English, the acquisition of Bombay (Mumbai) from the _________ in the 1660s gave the British East India Company a superb harbor.

Portuguese

Jesuit missionaries were at times welcomed into China and Japan but were ultimately rejected as "subversive" elements by the _____ and Tokugawa

Qing

Mughal relations with Safavid Persia, where _________ was the official state religion, meant a certain influence on the Mughal court was unavoidable.

Shia Islam

After a victory over the western coalition of daimyos, Tokugawa leyasu was made _____ in 1603.

Shogon

Akbar wore his hair long under his turban like the __________.

Sikhs

Ming land taxes were paid to the government in ______ via installments.

Silver

Mercantilist economic theory dictates that:

States should keep their economies blocked off from competitors and import as little and export as much as possible.

After another doubling of its population by 1800, China moved toward what some historical demographers have called a high-level equilibrium trap, a condition in which:

The land has reached its maximum potential for feeding a population, but the economy had not reached a point of disequilibrium

Akbar married the Rajput princess Manmati, despite her adherence to:

Hinduism

When Jahangir died in 1627, who succeeded him to the Mughal throne?

Jahan

Even with Japan's policy of seclusion, the government allowed merchants from China and _____ to visit Nagasaki.

Korea

By one estimate, in 1450 ______ of the Ming frontier military units had cannon and one-third of all troops carried firearms.

One-half

What percentage of the Japanese population lived in cities with populations above 10,000 in the latter part of the 18th century?

10

The poetic form of haiku reached its golden age in the Tokugawa period, and the most renowned practitioner of the form, composure of ______- syllable couplets, was Matsuo Basho.

17

The colony that James Oglethorpe established in North America would eventually become the state of _______.

Georgia

Spurred on by China's efficient agriculture, the population grew to ______ million by 1800.

300

Even though he was outnumbered, Babur was able to defeat the Lodi ruler at Paniput because:

He possessed matchlock muskets and field cannon

Aurangzeb spent much of the last two decades of his life campaigning against the _________.

Hindu Marathas

In the 1550s, Mughal forces secured the eastern, southern, and western flanks of their lands, anchoring Islam with the territory called "_______"

Hindustan

Aided by the ease of travel within the Mongol Empire, _________ had, by the fourteenth century, become the dominant religion among the Central Asian Turkic peoples.

Islam

The memory of Humayun's __________ was galling to the Mughals.

Forced conversion to Shiism.

African rulers sold slaves to the Europeans as

Luxury items to be exchanged for other luxury items.

The Qing originated in what region of the map?

Manchuria

The system devised under the Tokugawa bakufu (_______), referring to the shogun's official status as the emperor's mobile deputy was called sankin kotai, the "rule of alternate attendance"

"Tent government"

The _____ East India Company, having established its base at Calcutta in 1690, soon sought to expand its operations to China

British

Ships leaving from their home ports in England would exchange ___________ for slaves in West Africa.

Rum

The kings of Kongo demonstrated their absorption of Portuguese cultures by

Sending members of the ruling family to Portugal for their education

Some signs of economic stress were already present toward the end of Qianlong's reign, and chief among these was the problem of:

absentee landlordism

Akbar had a sudden intense mystical experience in 1578, gradually developing a personal philosophy he called "sulh-i kull", meaning "_________".

peace with all

The basic administrative unit in Mughal India was the pargana which comprised of

A town and up to one hundred villages.

The position of the military aristocracy in Japan was:

Absolute and unquestioned, in all matters of life and death.

In the Kongolese belief system, Portuguese Catholicism was:

Adapted to the indigenous African spiritual and cultural heritage.

Inconsolable after the loss of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan built a magnificent tomb complex in her honor near _________.

Agra

Who built the complex that houses the tomb of Sufi mystic Salim Chishti shown above?

Akbar

The Manchu state was divided into eight major military and ethnic divisions, each represented by a distinctive ______, and companies were formed of 300 fighters recruited from families represented by these means.

Banner

European manufacturers:

Began to produce their own porcelain starting in 1710.

Although the precise number of Africans transported to the Americas in the slave trade is difficult to determine, nearly half of the total number were sent to _______.

Brazil

After 1699, the city of ______ became a center of European trade and diplomacy with China.

Canton

The eighteenth century proved to be a boon time for all involved in the ______ trade, and the British is particular increasingly viewed it as a valuable part of their growing commercial power.

Canton

Recent scholarship suggests that a key formative element in the development of culture and identity of Africans in the Americas may in the influence of the:

Central African Creoles from Kongo and Ndongo

A wholescale massacre of Japanese _________ followed in the wake of a rebellion against the government in 1637

Christians

Popular cultures in Chinese villages included all of the following except:

Confucianism

The Mughals built fortresses at strategic points throughout their inner domains as well as along the frontier, and the largest was the Red Fort in _____.

Delhi

Akbar's four principal ministries included all of the following except:

Diplomatic relations with European trading companies.

In 1549 the Franciscan missing _____ landed in Japan.

Francis Xavier

The Gunpowder empires, named for their reliance on cannons and small arms in their military campaigns, included:

All of the above (Mughals, Safavids, Ottomans)

In addition to being a monument to his beloved wife, the Taj Mahal is also an architectural allegory for:

Allah's judgment in paradise on the day of the resurrection.

The Golden Temple in the city of _____ became the religious center of the Sikhs, and they defended their faith against the repressive policies of Aurangzeb.

Amritsar

In "chattel" slavery, the slave is, in legal terms:

An item of moveable personal property.

The Mughals gave India one of its most prolific eras in terms of profusion and synthesis of literary genres, with ______ remaining the chief languages of literature in Islamic India.

Arabic and Persian

Akbar's religious policies were viewed, by his fellow Muslims:

As proof that he had actually become a non-believer

Dorgon crossed the Great Wall into China in 1642:

At the invitation of a Chinese general.

_______ reimposed the hated jizya tax on non-muslims, which had been abolished by Akbar.

Aurangzeb

The Songhay empire was able to acquire gold by taxing the markets of Timbuktu and

Gao

" ______ learning" was especially prized in Tokugawa period, with their representatives retaining yearly access to the shogunate and exerting influence on prominent Japanese intellectual.

Dutch

By the time of Aurangzeb's death, the Marathas had set up their own administrative system, and were:

Encouraging raids on Mughal caravans and pack trains

As Mughal power was sapped by the revolts of the Marathas and others in the eighteenth century, the armed forces of the ___________ became important players in regional politics.

European trading companies

The average slave field hand on a sugar plantation was estimated to live:

Five or six years

In Japan, a period of civil war erupted in 1467 and continued, off and on, until the ______

1570s

A four-way struggle broke out among the sons of Shah Jahan when he fell ill in ____

1657

Due to rural economic expansion during the Mughal period, the population grew to ____ by 1800.

200

The end of the fourteenth century marked the stunning rise of Temur Gurgan, who almost matched the conquests of:

Genghis Khan

Which countries in Europe developed porcelain factories in the 18th century?

Germany and England

Although they were under frequent attack by Kanem-Bornu, the ________ kingdoms enjoyed periods of independence during which many of the ruling clans converted to Islam.

Hausa

______ turned the running of his empire over to his wife, the striking Persian princess Nur Jahan, on several occasions, and she mediated the succession wars after his death.

Jahangir

The Qianlong emperor launched military expeditions against all of the following except:

Japan

The huge commitment of Chinese troops against the forces of the Japanese leader Hideyoshi during his attempted invasion of ________ and China from 1592 to 1598 weakened the Ming dynasty and led to the rise of the Manchus.

Korea

By 1557, the Portuguese had wrested the first European colony from the Chinese at _________, and they held it until 1999.

Macau

______ became a vital axis of world trade, with Chinese merchants exchanging spices and luxury goods for Spanish silver from the Americas.

Manila

The Mughals appointed numbers of the new ____ elite to positions in the provincial governments and state ministries.

Mansabdar

For Babur and his successors, their ruling family would always be "The House of Timur," prompting historians to sometimes refer to the line as the Timurids. However, because of their claims to the legacy of Genghis Khan, they would be better known to the world as the _________.

Mughals

_________ writers, painters, and poets followed Humayun to India, where their talents enlivened the arts and helped develop Urdu verse forms.

Persian

Like his model Genghis Khan, Timur:

Proved surprisingly liberal in the treatment of at least some cities that surrendered.

With the traditional threat from the borders now quashed, the reign of the _________ emperor, from 1736 to 1795, marked both the high point and the beginning of the decline of the Qing dynasty —— and the imperial China itself.

Qianlong

What made a uniform tax on agriculture difficult to enforce?

Regional differences in soil conditions, climate, and productivity.

Ukiyo-e was a genre of _______ that was practiced by Kitagawa Utamaro in the late eighteenth and earth nineteenth centuries.

Woodblock printing

An example of a Creole language that has survived for centuries is Gullah, used by the isolated communities along the coastal islands of Georgia and _______.

South Carolina

One of the richest glimpses into local Chinese society comes from Pu Songling's __________ Tales from a Chinese Studio.

Strange

As distasteful as it was for a _________ to curry favor from the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp, Humayun received his support and reclaimed his throne in 1555.

Sunni Muslim

Succession in the Mughal empire was complicated due to the fact:

That traditional nomadic succession practices had been institutionalized.

After Brazil, which region in the American received the largest number of African slaves?

The Caribbean

After the Dutch, who dominated the slave trade with West Africa?

The English

Indian _________ calicoes (named for the Indian port of Calicut) proved immensely popular in Europe for underwear and summer clothing.

cotton

The skills of Hindus and Jains were increasingly sought by the Mughal court, and Akbar made a Hindu his ___________ and employed Hindu court astrologers.

finance minister

What religious order trained their members in Chinese language and culture, in order to have a better chance at spreading Christianity?

Jesuits

The astronomers of the Kerala school had calculated elliptical orbits for the visible planets a century in advance of __________.

Johannes Kepler

The Qing sought to safeguard the borders of the empire by reckoning with the Mongols and the ______ in the 1720s.

Tibetan Buddhists

The _____ shoguns adopted Neo-Confucianism as the governing ideology, thus joining the commonwealth of Confucian "religious civilizations" in the region

Tokugawa

Women could, and often did, exercise a greater degree of power and influence among the ___________ than among most other groups in India.

Turkic peoples

The Popes found Jesuit practices in China like ________ problematic.

Using tea and rice for the Eucharist instead of bread and wine

After he had launched a coup against his father, Akbar, Salim:

Was reconciled with his Father

Babur, holding court in the image above, claimed legitimacy based on his father being a descendant of Timur and his mother:

Was related to Genghis Khan

According to the infamous "_______ edict" in 1645, all males, regardless of ethnicity, were required on pain of death to adopt the Manchu hairstyle of a shaved forehead and long pigtail in the back.

queue

Chikamatsu Monzaemon's most famous play is based on a real incident, in which the daimyo of 47 samurai was killed by a political opponent, leaving them as ________ - masterless.

Ronin

What name was given to an outgrowth of the criticism of the Wang Yangming school?

The Han learning movement

What noted structure was designed by the architect Ustad Ahmad Lahori?

The Red Fort of Shahjahanabad

The conclusion that porcelain was the single most important commodity in the unfolding world commercial revolution between 1500 and 1800 is supported by which of the following:

The appearance of porcelain as home furnishings in almost all households of means.

What Japanese policy does the island of Deshima represent?

Isolation